

Still, he has made this claim and it will be backed up by millions of other men who want to retain their 'right' to speak about and treat women in the most appalling of manners while pretending they are True Allies of the Real Cause. It couldn't be possible to have less respect for women than Trump does. Trump has called women "fat slobs" and "pigs" who act out against him because they're "bleeding out of their wherever". This is a patently false statement, almost laughable in its absurdity. This is, of course, yet another tool used to deny the validity of women's testimonies of harassment or assault – by indicating they are simply too ugly for the discerning abuser to bother with.ĭespite all this, Trump asserted during the third and final debate in the Presidential race that "no one respects women more than me". Caught on tape advocating that men "grab by the pussy", Trump has since dismissed as lies further allegations of sexual assault being levelled against him by suggesting the women making the claims are too unattractive for him to pursue in that manner.
#Succeed in silence full#
This has been on full display in the aftermath of revelations that Donald Trump considers the sexual assault of women to be little more than a jolly jape.

Our apparent inability to assess a situation objectively makes us unreliable witnesses. Instead of being believed when we recount the circumstances of our own lives, we are frequently labelled oversensitive and/or paranoid. One of the chief methods used to silence women who speak out against harassment is to discredit their recollection of events.
